The main aim of the project is to expand the theory of environmental justice by analyzing the every-day life lived experience of local communities exposed to various environmental changes, hazards and conflicts. We also aim to develop a new analytical framework of environmental justice by examining the tensions between typical and alternative forms of ‘doing justice’ enacted by local communities. Developing a typology of performative EJ will be done by differentiating between different layers of injustice beyond dualist dilemmas such as distributional vs recognition or cultural vs material, by studying the acts of un-doing assumed ‘natural’ identities and by understanding the connections between ecology and decolonial/postcolonial thinking.